Why do women love The Bachelor? Perhaps because it's easier to spot the absurdity and empty promises in someone else's relationship.

Two women — Tenley Molzahn and Vienna Girardi — have professed their love for bachelor Jake Pavelka, a pilot from Denton, and are vying for his proposal in Monday's season finale of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, at 7 p.m. on ABC. The finalists will meet Jake's family, Jake will reveal his decision, and then in the “After the Final Rose” segment, they will look back on the process.

More than 12 million viewers have been tuning in to the show each week; ratings are up, helped by a couple of dramas — whether real or manipulated — that unfolded this season, the show's 14th. First, bachelorette Rozlyn Papa allegedly entered into an “inappropriate” physical relationship with one of the show's producers. Papa, who denied the relationship, was asked to leave. (She recently auditioned for E!) Then, Ali Fedotowsky, an audience favorite, left the show so she wouldn't lose her marketing job at Facebook. Ali is rumored to be the next Bachelorette, which starts filming in March.

Many viewers have expressed their displeasure with the remaining two picks. The “I hate Vienna” Facebook page has 4,500 fans who doubt the sincerity of the former Hooters waitress. And the response to Tenley has been tepid; she's nice but naive and a little boring.

Web spoilers have indicated that Vienna takes the final rose, but that could be more manipulation from ABC. A new theory offers that neither woman is picked.

“More so than any other girl, Vienna and I have just had a natural affection for each other,” Jake gushed on last week's episode. “She's made it unbelievably clear that she's here for me.” But he also says he sees his future wife in both of these women.

So far, no Bachelor has married the woman he picked on the show. There will be a wedding, though. Season 13's Jason Mesnick called off his engagement with Melissa Rycroft and proposed to runner-up Molly Malaney. They will marry in an ABC-televised ceremony March 8.

When the franchise's only other success story, Bachelorette'sTrista Rehn and Ryan Sutter, married on television, 17.1 million viewers tuned in.